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Becoming a servitor...

Is this the scariest thing that can happen to you in the 41st Millennium?

Whats your scariest thing?

Ecclesiarch Issus XLVII wrote:The Daemonic leads to two crimes. You turn away from the path of righteousness. And you abandon the Emperor as the object of your devotion. For the first, death is merely a just retribution. The second is a heresy so terrible that no punishment can be sufficient. Yet the search for an appropriate penalty continues, and it shall be found.

 Psienesis wrote:

Ecclesiarch Issus XLVII wrote:The Daemonic leads to two crimes. You turn away from the path of righteousness. And you abandon the Emperor as the object of your devotion. For the first, death is merely a just retribution. The second is a heresy so terrible that no punishment can be sufficient. Yet the search for an appropriate penalty continues, and it shall be found.

My army is daemons!

The one-way trip to Commorragh.

Getting hit by a D-scythe and being cast into the warp. Or being sent to Commoragh. I couldn't decide between the two, so I'm putting up both

Death... Death means an eternity of suffering being flayed and devoured by Daemons and other unborn.

Death is nothing. You'll experience a brief period of suffering followed by oblivion as there isn't enough of your soul left coagulate to retain awareness, at least not until you coalesce once more and become a Fury.

I'd have to say Commoragh.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Death is nothing. You'll experience a brief period of suffering followed by oblivion as there isn't enough of your soul left coagulate to retain awareness, at least not until you coalesce once more and become a Fury.

I'd have to say Commoragh.

I think the more recent fiction would beg to differ. You'd just be a background hum of endless torment.

Death, by far, is horrible, although becoming a daemon or servitor of any god except Nurgle is possibly worse. Particularly Slaanesh or Tzeentch.

Really, ANY shot at immortality in 40k is preferable to dying. Wraith construct? Sign me up. Haemonculus? Check. Dreadnaught Sarcophagus? I'll jump in front of the next krakk missile I see if there's one available.

Being in Khornes Blood Coliseum. To constantly be reborn, again and again, only to die to his servants and be ripped apart constantly for millennia.

Maybe being sterilized by Tau... Since they hate all other races but are too wimpy to simply fight them, they offer peace and love, only to poison their food and water to make them die off as a species because they cannot procreate. BASTARDS.

post heresy, there is a lot of hints that human souls, at least the faithful go to Big E.

Fighting the Tyranids. I wonder how IG feel when fighting them. Any guesses?

To work for nurgle.

Sick days no longer become an excuse.

HoundsofDemos wrote:
post heresy, there is a lot of hints that human souls, at least the faithful go to Big E.

I'm not aware of anything that makes that claim other than Imperium citizens who just say it because they want it to be true. Is there any kind of source that supports that being anything more than propaganda?

Among other sources Imperial Glory (2011) very strongly implies that unless you active give your self to a Chaos god, now that humanity has something to pledge it's soul to you default to the Big E. This is supported by much of the recent HH novels that are slowly building up that the Emperor realizes that Chaos can't be beaten by passively ignoring and deny them but by providing an alternate source of worship.

Commorragh or experiencing the natural ungrimdark version of a sun's death on an orbiting planet

Or worse yet, upsetting the Pan Fo over their secrets yet to be reviled

Being forced to write codexes for the 40k fanbase

I imagine being the pilot of one of the fighters that ended up as Helldrakes is no picnic...

Yoyoyo wrote:
Being forced to write codexes for the 40k fanbase

This. No matter what you do, someone hates you.

Yoyoyo wrote:
Being forced to write codexes for the 40k fanbase

This right here my friend' I think we have a thread winner.

Working for the Administratum.

I imagine being chained to a work station of a forgeworld working never ending shifts for your entire life would be pretty crappy as well. Maybe not the worse but i've always said if I had to be anyone in 40k i'd pick an ork. They seem to be the only ones having a good time.

UrsoerTheSquid wrote:
I imagine being chained to a work station of a forgeworld working never ending shifts for your entire life would be pretty crappy as well. Maybe not the worse but i've always said if I had to be anyone in 40k i'd pick an ork. They seem to be the only ones having a good time.

That's being an office drone anywhere in the world right now in the 21st century. Who says this is fiction of the far-off future?

Fulgrum being trapped in his own head and left a silent witness while a daemon destroys his Legion and bring ruin to all he loved, for eternity.

SJ

Servitors have it easy. They used to be fresh corpses, now they're lobotomized, but either way, brain function is next to nonexistant.

Being one of the many toys of a Dark Eldar Baron would be about as bad as it gets. Not even death is a release.

I was always perturbed by the Emperors fate, sort of being alive but not, acting like a gigantic nightlight for spaceships. Not able to escape his body and to be re-born or fight the Chaos Gods to have any resolution one way or another - just watching as everything he fought for turns into a parody

the HH novels have suggest that this was the best case scenario for the Imperium once he realized that his Imperial truth wasn't working. He provides an alternative place for worship and souls to go, and once the Golden Throne finally fails, whose to say he doesn't ascend.

HoundsofDemos wrote:
the HH novels have suggest that this was the best case scenario for the Imperium once he realized that his Imperial truth wasn't working. He provides an alternative place for worship and souls to go, and once the Golden Throne finally fails, whose to say he doesn't ascend.

Aye, it's the waiting that gets me though

I recall a scene from the 'Eye of Terror' where some dude got filleted by a demon of slaanesh and was happy about it.

That seems pretty up there.

Hmm, okay, brownie points for using the word filleted. I think you are onto something as I remember reading something along those lines too and actually finding the description rather grim (and a stray away from the generally impersonal descriptions in 40K books).

Was it in Fulgrim by any chance?

Being a sister of battle in a Ward codex.....